Christians depend on each other, they should not be independent against each other

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.