With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.

Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.