Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.