I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.