The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

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

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

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