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.

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

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

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

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.