I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Are anybody's parents typical?

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.