I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.