I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.