If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.