You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.
In death, as in sleep, I am all things.
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it. . . Art [is] a form of active prayer.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.
I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.