The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect

Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.

Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity you wouldn't have anything.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats?

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.