I like the philosophy of the sandwich, as it were. It typifies my attitude to life, really. It's all there, it's fun, it looks good, and you don't have to wash up afterwards.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.