Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.