Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

The world is certainty a sudden place.

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.