“The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.”

“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”

“The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.”

“Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.”

“Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.”