Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature."It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.