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Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.
There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.
Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.
The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.
Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.