Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.

I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

It is so easy to exist instead of live.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.