wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.