It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.