Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

To dream is to desire.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

Start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.