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

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.