For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?