Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.

Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith