However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

The poor should live by alms.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

Babies are saved when Christians show up.

Art's too long and life's too short.

I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

I am only me for practical purposes.

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

Dreams happen in the strangest places. Watch for them.

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.