A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.