You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.