God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the 'other people' dimension, the greater our personal 'greatness'.

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength.

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.