The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.