“every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”

“It's easy to believe in God when you wake up every morning knowing you are completely and unconditionally loved.”

“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”

“The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.”

“Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.”

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ”