Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.