Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome..

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers..

When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been….

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive….

All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed ….

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious..

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice..

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers be….

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance..

Faith is the enemy of discovery..

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less..