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

What has been is no more. Change has come.

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

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

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.