Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2011) - ISBN: 9781447206019