Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.