You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another t...
You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting that you’re in love?...You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses...Completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it...
You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting that you’re in love? she asked him. You are just naked. You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weap...
You know, I’ve always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.
Your Holiness, we are more than prepared to concede that overpopulation alone is not the sole cause of poverty and misery, Giuliani began. Fatuous oligarchies, Gelasius suggested. Ethnic paranoia. Whi...
Your sorrow is of no interest to me, Sandoz said softly. If you want absolution, go to a priest.
You’ve seen what, Emilio conceded, but not why! That’s where God is, Anne. In the why of it—in the meaning.
[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.
[John] watched the flames for a while. I would have to say that I find God in serving His children. 'When I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was a stanger and you w...
An insouciant flip of the wrist—
Eternal beginner, starting over and over in a new place in new circumstances, with new languages, new people, a new commission. They had this in common: the continual rushed confrontation with change,...
Guess—You know how people say, Don’t borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it’s the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. The
Hair and crumbs and unidentifiable orts to be vacuumed,
He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
It seemed entirely possible to him that religion and literature and art and music were all merely side effects of a brain structure that comes into the world ready to make language out of noise, sense...
Out whose side they were on. Even Fat
She wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
The past was not dead but alive, and important by virtue of the very invisibility of its influence.
There are still times when the thief I started out to be feels more authentic to me than the priest I’ve been for decades. To be pulled out of a slum and educated is to be an outsider forever— He stop...
Tidy up before leaving for the day. When
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