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

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.