There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay, " Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.

Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

It isn't just what you know, and it isn't just who you know. It's actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.