What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephe...
They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weig...
Then normal sank.
The sun was beginning to pull the curtains on the day.
People move in the hope of a better life.
Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed.
I was determined to move forward.
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.
The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at lea...
A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves u...
لماذا الأسئلة التي نطرحها تفوق الأجوبة دائمًا؟
This book was born as I was hungry. Let me explain.
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
Only fear can defeat life.
My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
I love my prayer rug. . . . because it helped me remember that the earth is the creation of God and sacred the same all over.
He often repeated something Father Abrahan said to him once, how faith is ever young, how faith, unlike the rest of us, does not age.
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got u...