Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.