prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests.

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the blame

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

I've seen what's happened to America. We're no longer respected.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.