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.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

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

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives