A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.