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.

Their throats were bare for God.

Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.

The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

Life was a pre-death experience.

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.