Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids - all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through.

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which, once you have got it, you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness ...

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Being rich and thin isn't everything.