I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.

If we can't remove a member of Congress who has been convicted of 10 felonies - including using his office for personal gain - we risk losing the faith and trust of the American people that we have.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.