prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.