Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

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.