“All of life is a story”

“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”

“Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.”

“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”

“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”

“The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”

“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”