While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

I prefer true over happy now.

Memories are like water.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.