"To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom."

“The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com

“Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.”

“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”

“What drives me nuts is that we have these serial sexual predators, who hired back women whose careers were ruined by men who harassed or assaulted them and they're high profile people, and the next day the media is talking about who's going to rehire them. I'm like, Who cares? Why would they be hirable again? I mean, I'm all for comebacks, but what about the women? Shouldn't we be going back to them first? They had the American dream taken away from them.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.”

“The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.”

“Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.”

Source : Lewis B. Smedes (1978). “Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“You fog the mind, you stir the soul.”

Source : Song: Somewhere Down The Crazy River, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987