“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”

“If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.”

“All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.”

“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.”

“Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.”

“People are more than just the way they look.”

“That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words.”