To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough. ’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate when it is done in union with Jesus Christ
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.