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

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

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

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

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.