It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

Today is the only guarantee you get.

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.