Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

I loved you when I was eight. I loved you when I was twelve. I loved you when I was twenty, and I... I love you now.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.