To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

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

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

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.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.