Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.