Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.