There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

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