In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

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

You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

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