“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

“If you love me, be patient. Look at the trees. Are they in a hurry to ripen their fruit?”

“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

“It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.”

“Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.”

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

“Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.”

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…”