…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.