My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.