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.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

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.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

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