Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.