“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”
“A big complicated mess is easy. Making something simple and clear is hard.”
“Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!”
“Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.”
“The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life. ”