The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.