“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”
“If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”
“Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?”
“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
“It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life.”