Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

My faith falters at times. But I have a very, very strong faith in work ethic, for lack of a better way of putting it.

I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that's why we love it.

When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.