To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.
It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.
When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.
My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies. " I said, "You're fired. "
I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle neurosis. That's my game. I'm not an action writer or a thriller writer and I'm not a sketch writer. I don't pretend to be those things. Then it would not be fun. Then you are in a space where this is painful.
But we must not suffer over the suffering.
When you've got everything you need, why complicate it?