The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.

Your poetry is lonely. And yet, you write to feel less alone

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!