The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask que….

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 clo….

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn..

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift..

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we ….

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

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which aff….

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfe….

Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.'….

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts..

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy..

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard..

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but….

It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his….

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of….

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has foun….

When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for l….

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by..

All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Ch….

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at tim….

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