A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.