The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

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.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.