Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.

In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'