One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
And there’s no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
Love is the one surprise.
It was a dark and stormy night.
People become trustworthy when they are trusted.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don’t get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.
That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.
You learn to write by doing it.
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.
If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.
My protagonists, male and female, are me.
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I’ve been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.
Hate hurts the hater more’n the hated.