Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

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 was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.