Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Everyone thinks that Prince and I had a beautiful, romantic love affair, but we didn't. We just let people think that in order to promote 'Purple Rain.'

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.