Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

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.

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

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

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.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.