We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.