“The world is a dark place, and I find it endlessly funny.”

“The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.”

“It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.”

“For a world with so much sun we live in a dark place, in a dark time.”

“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

“I wake to a darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other’s lips and eyes.”

“A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.”

“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”

“Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.”

“Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.”