And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own drum, gave no n….

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity..

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you….

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!.

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she ….

And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive co….

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all ….

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven..

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group..

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it c….

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to l….

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can.

A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire r….

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough..

I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture..

…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how ….

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love..

Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive h….

Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the ….

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther..

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write th….