Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

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

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.