“When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?”

“When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.”

“Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.”

“I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.”

“I confess this is an unforeseen -- unforeseen and, indeed, I did not foresee it -- by-product of journaling: in writing down the facts of one's feelings, one might leave out facts, and one might also try to convince oneself that one's fantasy is, in fact, one's fact, or at least a fact among other facts, other facts that are, in fact, facts, making it most difficult to tell the fact from the fantasy.”

“Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.”