There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place

I knew every raindrop by its name.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

Every season has an end~for a harvest to begin. Embrace the process!

Balance only happens in dynamic tension. Balance is giving not equal but appropriate attention to each of the various categories of your life.

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world

I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

Elvis makes millions every year, although he's been dead for many years.