“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”

“It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.”

“The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.”

“When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.”

“...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...”

“It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.”

“Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.”