Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.