Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

Are anybody's parents typical?

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter. . . The offerings of creation. . . our glimpses of truth.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.