“Your work is your identity, your life is your message.”

“Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.”

“Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.”

“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a "writer". You establish from yourself to yourself continuities and a level of coherence which is not quite the same as your real life... All this ends up constituting a kind of neo-identity which is not identical to your identity as a citizen or your social identity, Besides you know this very well, since you want to protect your private life.”

“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”

“Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.”