“From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?”

“In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.”

“What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.”

“It gets off to a pretty slow start, the main character does a total 180 about half way through, and the rest of the book is about his kid. It ends on a bit of a downer.”

“Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.”

“We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening.”