It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.

You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.