I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
If you're offended, it's your problem.
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.