If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

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

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)