thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

A book is not completed till it's read.