To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take..

People become trustworthy when they are trusted..

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you..

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over..

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points..

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive..

Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which impris….

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like..

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't nee….

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must….

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity..

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be..

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, unt….

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it..

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race..

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually..

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like f….

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is . It is a vehicle of tru….

We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing the….

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love..

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all i….