“We insist, it seems, on living.”

“It is one of those rare moments when we seem to forget everything,forget this insistence on living in the moment.”

“We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.”

“He insisted we sleep together, I insisted we didn’t.I won.”

“I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes,or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preservemy body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, beforethis omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”

“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”