We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.