[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess.

I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long.

Nature was beautiful and filled with spirituality without needing to be likewise full of spirits.

I could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them.

Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?

The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way.

Angels are just beyond us. They’re creatures that biology doesn’t apply to. They don’t love humanity at all. They just love God.

You get a few of them together and don’t be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in…

[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability.

His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.

You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.

I am willing to walk with God

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.