If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

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

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.