I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

I've always been the long-term relationship go-home-and-meet-mom girl.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year but not 12 months a year.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.