I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

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.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.