Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

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

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.