I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

To change, to convert? Why bother?

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.