I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary. ~Renzo Leoni
I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.
I am damned if I will spend my time listenin' to ungrammatical, repetitious, imbecilic nonsense without a challenge!
Home...if there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John
He wondered then if Jesus expected gratitude as Lazarus emerged, stinking, from the crypt. Maybe Lazarus was a disappointment to everyone, too.
He felt as though he were a prism, gathering up God’s love like white light and scattering it in all directions, and the sensation was nearly physical, as he caught and repeated as much of what everyo...
Do you know what made me fall in love with you? George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled that he should ask her this now. I heard you laugh, down the hall, just before I got to Spanish clas...
Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart.
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.
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...
[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.
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...
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 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...
Why is it that God gets all the credit for the good stuff, but it's the doctor's fault when shit happens? When the patient comes through, it's always 'Thank God,' and when the patient dies, it's alway...
WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Stella Maris is on her way out of the solar system,
The problem with atheism, I find, under these circumstances, is that I have no one to despise but myself. If, however, I choose to believe that God is vicious, then at least I have the solace of hatin...
The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined.
Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76)