What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I'm grateful to you.

I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.