Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.
When it comes to books. . . They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.
People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.
There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.
Writing is a form of self-flagellation.
I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.