Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.