I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.