Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.