The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

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.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.