When we are not sure, we are alive.

Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.