For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

I write to discover what I know.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.