No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

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.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.