Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.