Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

We boil at different degrees.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.

My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Instead of just asking 'How did I do?' ask 'How can I do more?'