I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.

I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.

I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that Arthur Machen was one of those especially interested in the link between the pagan mysteries and the Christian ones. So, my experience was also a Machenesque experience.

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.