Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.