Like and equal are two entirely different things.

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.