Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.