Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

Sometimes it's our secrets that define us.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.