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

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

It was a dark and stormy night.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

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

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.