"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone."

"You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel."

"If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best."

"True wisdom begins when you realize hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear."

"Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men."

"It is a radiant truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."