Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.