The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

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

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

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

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.