“Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell.”

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”

“You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.”

“I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand”

“It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.”

“Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.”