Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.