Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling!

I want everyday magic.

If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder.

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...

A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask"Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.