“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.”

“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.”

“I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.”

“That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.”

“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.”