“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.”

“I cannot find anywhere in my life a time, or a kind of time, that is unoccupied. I am free, but my time is not. My time is fully and vitally occupied.... None of this is spare time. I can't...”

“What it made me think about above all is how incredibly much we learn from our birthday to last day - from where the horsies live to the origin of the stars. How rich we are in knowledge, an...”