God reveals possibilities through impossibilities"! EL

To resist evil is to stand firm against the wrong committed without reacting to the wrong-doer!

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL

When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback, ' that's grace in action!

Grace allows for questions ... and is the answer!" EL

God is committed when we are submitted! Surrender whatever you're holding onto!

Find your I first and then dissolve in it!

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.