I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.