You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

And joy is always a promise.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.