If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

We read to know that we are not alone.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

When you invest in life, you are being fruitful and productive

Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

To have a choice at all is to be privileged.

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).