I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to me.

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.