I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.