Easter is never deserved.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

People come around, oh Donald Trump did this or that. I never saw these people before, I don't know who they are.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is a real feeling of loneliness sometimes.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.