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.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

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

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

God draws straight with crooked lines.