A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.