Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.