The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

Time and pains will do anything.

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!