If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.