For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

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.

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

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.

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.