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We are not to retreat from life, pinning our hopes on ‘elsewhere.’ but to know that we will come to that final destination best by living full here and now, be it through joy, or pain, or a mix of both.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.

The truth of a story is what the novelist strives for, and quite often the writer is taken down strange and unexpected paths on this search.

It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.

Faith is for the part of the story that superficially isn’t believable.

Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Alike and Equal are not the same.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

A history of Hitler has to be a history of his power — how he came to get it, what its character was, how he exercised it, why he was allowed to expand it to break all institutional barriers, why resistance to that power was so feeble. But these are questions to be directed at German society, not just at Hitler.

And after tea, we play Junior Scrabble. We are the ideal nuclear family. We eat together, we play improving board games instead of watching television, we smile alot. I fear that at any moment I may kill somebody.