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One of the mistakes we make over and over again in life is to go directly for the things we think are important. But if we aim at self-fulfillment, we shall never be fulfilled. If we aim at education, we shall never become educated. If we aim at salvation, we shall never be saved. These things are indirect, supreme results of doing something else. . . .

The first point I want to make about visual art is that there is a difference between an original work of art and copies or pastiche of it, and it would be better to have on our wall an original painting by an unknown artist than several prints of world masterpieces.

Humor is deeply enshrined in religion; it is one of those things that distinguish the believer from the hypocrite.

Literary artists don't say all they mean; they have silences and gaps, and these have their effect on us as well as that which is explicit. . . . Writers who don't tell us their point but leave it for us to find have much more opportunity of gaining our consent because in the finding we identify ourselves with those writers by going through their own through processes.

The voice carries us; the voice sums us up and coaches us in terms of our lives; the voice reflects our lives . . . . We must therefore trust our voices to be able to tell us things that we wouldn't know if we didn't use them . . . . Perhaps most important is that we read to each other regularly, as couples, as families, listening to each other and telling each other what we are hearing.