“I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable — in other words, in an art of life.”

“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”

“In a word, adventure to Chapman is the breath of life. Given adventure he has the courage to achieve the unbelievable.”

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”

“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”

“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...”