Jesus said, “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.

Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.

It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

God’s love is God’s attention.

impossible is not a word

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

…there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not.

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.