I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.