My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.