Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?