Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

You too can become wealthy but only thanks to the amount of time you are willing to convert into products.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.