If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

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.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.