Quotes About Author

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

country's wealth; religion, the role of the afterlife, which

In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.

Great American Novel" = "doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.

You don't understand," I said, adding the most difficult claim of fealty I'd ever made, "That's my son.

I'd no idea that you'd prove such an able apprentice. You were sure to be a journalist, in which case the chances were terribly high that you'd also be a prat.

Why would I not know the context?" He took a single swallow from his glass. "I am the context." He put the glass on the counter, and left. I'm certain of it: that moment, that hard swallow, is when he decided.

She had joined the loamy, misshapen tubers on the living room sofa.

The eerie disposition between player and piano put me in mind of Schroeder, banging out Beethoven on a toy.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on within small limits and under great difficulties.

In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind," as he puts it in the essay on Partisan Review, "we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Our interest in sex is no longer to annihilate it, but to educate it, to find civilized opportunities for its expression.

Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick. —SINGLE-MINDED

Don't you worry, darlin'," he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. "I like surprises

I hope we're not intruding,' she croons, sweetly. "Well, I say, "I was trying to get a little work done." I give T.J. a fuck-you-I-don't-look-weird-get-the-hell-out-of-here-look, but apparently only I know what the look is meant to convey.

You're into happiness?" the technician says, her eyes never leaving the computer screen. "I'm writing a book about it," I say. "About happiness?" she says. "Yes," I say. " Didn't the Dali Lama already write that book?

an uneasy feeling that something was very, very wrong stuck with her.

I'd been secretly fantasising about you waking up fully restored back to factory settings.