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

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.