We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...