One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

[The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus.

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.

She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

Everyone of us should emulate him. We can all learn from Paul Scholes.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?