Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.