I buy way too many books.

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.