I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

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

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

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.

Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.