The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

Dating is the best inward and outward sign that you've moved on after a big break.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Whatever the future holds I'm not really sure.