Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to." "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

You learn to write by doing it.