"Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face. - Yann Martel

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.