When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.
You never came out the way you came in.
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
The hardest thing about getting publicity is doing it on a budget. . . you can hire people to market you but it's hard in this industry when it comes out of pocket. I've found that if the music is awesome, that helps a lot.
I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.