Underground, the stars are legend.

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique

Walls have ears.Doors have eyes.Trees have voices.Beasts tell lies.Beware the rain.Beware the snow.Beware the manYou think you know.-Songs of Sapphique

All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.