The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.

I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

If You find yourself in a hole

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are.