Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world have been founded by men and propagated by men.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

I'm not the perfect bride after all.

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.