I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.