As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.