Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

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

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.