But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.