No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

No one can whistle a symphony.

I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

Be thankful.Be grateful.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.