Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

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

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.

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.