Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.