I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as written by Dostoyevsky and heavily edited by John Updike.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.