Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.

I guess that’s the way secrets are. They’re only heavy when you’re holding them. As soon as you let go, the significance of keeping those secrets hidden blows away and everything falls into place.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

I think [Hillary Clinton] would make a horrible president.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

You can't miss what you never had.

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.