I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.