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Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

At any given time, all of us have an empty spot: one that is calling for companionship, for example, or for justice, love, romance, or a belly laugh. When I sit down to write, I look to see what hole needs filling at that particular moment.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Our life is full of empty space.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.