When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.