One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

I have too Many Cookies? what do you think?

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.