You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

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.

this heart yearns...for the salt of unsmelt airunswept thunderstorms...unknown adventures.

Make yourself feel good. Be enthusiastic about your day.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.

I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.