Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

Convictions are prisons.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

A tragedy need not have blood and death

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

Time travel is such a magic concept.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."

It's all going to be okay.

I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.