The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

We are awash in the revealed world.

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.