In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.

An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.

Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.