I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.