We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world