We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

...his tortured voice lost in the much grander cries of the world around him.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.