Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.