Nothing important is completely explicable.

Love is the one surprise.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.