When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

I think of my novels as entertainments.