We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart. Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.