He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.

He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her breasts enabled a flying man good hold and emotions of heady safety. . . . Steering her peasant tits he bounded off stars.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.