Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

You learn to write by doing it.

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.