If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

I'm trying not to be a kid all the time, but it's hard.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.