If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

In my dreams, I never have an age.

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

"I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father."

"Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.