"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."

"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity."

"If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other."

"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

"I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief."

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

"One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category."