“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”

“To be social is to be forgiving.”

“We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.”

“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

“Something sinister in the toneTold me my secret must be known:Word I was in the house aloneSomehow must have gotten abroad,Word I was in my life alone,Word I had no one left but God.”

“My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,As my two eyes make one in sight.”