Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Art is communication.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

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

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom.

To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.