If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.