Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.