‎You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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.

I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.