There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. - Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.