I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.