My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth.