Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.