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.

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

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.