When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

And joy is always a promise.

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.