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

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

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.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

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

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.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.