As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.