“Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.”
“Nobody's seen Jesus in years.”
“Nonetheless, out of a life of 60 or 70 years, three years is more than a thousand days and a thousand nights”
“Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.”
“In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.”
“That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.”