It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it.

Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.

I wanted to peel myself off of me.

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed.

Life has to end, love doesn't.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.