I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.