Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.