I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.