Use Your Power Gently.

When I Began To Write Seriously, 40 Years Ago Now, My Chosen Form Was The Novel.

God Creates Us Free, Free To Be Selfish, But He Adds A Mechanism That Will Penetrate Our Selfishness And Wake Us Up To The Presence Of Others In This World, And That Mechanism Is Called Suffering.

There Is This Notion That The Lives Of The Comfortable-off Middle Class Don't Merit Being Treated Seriously And With Compassion.

A Well-off Plastic Surgeon Can Suffer Just As Much As An Irish Lad Who Has Been Abused Or Whatever.

Self-sufficiency Is The Enemy Of Salvation. If You Are Self-sufficient, You Have No Need Of God. If You Have No Need Of God, You Do Not Seek Him. If You Do Not Seek Him, You Will Not Find Him.