It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.