Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice