Will you remember me when I'm gone?

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.