You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally have a good man.

I am the collector of the past.

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up.""Had to happen sometime, " I say.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?