The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.