there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

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

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.