In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

Taking a close look at all technical options is the right thing for them (AOL and MSN) to be doing.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.