My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

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

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.