“Maturity is produced through relationships and community.”

“The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.”

“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”

“The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.”

“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”