Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.

Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.

God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.

Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris, ' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?

The goal of all life is death.

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.