Frederick Buechner

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.