Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make these actually-existing people, including the actually-existing person with my name, into a believable person on the page. And that requires distance. That requires not being right up against the events you're talking about.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

My heart broke open and history fell in.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.