It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

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.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.