"I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion."

“When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.”

“Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.”

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“If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?”

“I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.”

“Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings”

“I think the whole thing is kind of sad, honestly, in the same way that our civilization - particularly the consumers of pop culture - has grown so used to an emasculated, bare-chested leading man that something like simply growing a mustache can impress people.”

“I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.”

“It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.”