Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

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 something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!