Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly w….

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys..

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on h….

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help ….

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible..

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are..

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence..

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!".

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love..

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it wil….

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this….

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy..

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long..

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again..

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast.

You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts..

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 heal….

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life..

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation ….

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed f….