If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.