“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ”
“Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.”
“As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.”
“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.”
“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”
“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”