"My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us."

"If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh."

"It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship."

"My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out."

"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."

"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"I look more to the future. That's where my head is at."