I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

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

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.