If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.