"Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. Try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything, except thing like "pass the gravy," is a lie of a sort."
"People, of course, are very secretive... and, for many reasons, want to appear what ... what we call ordinary. Everybody has thoughts they want to conceal, perhaps even quite simple aspects of their lives. People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think any character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist's privilege to see how odd everyone is."
"What about friends in your other world?
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You know more about me than anyone on earth. You are my world."
"Human beings love each other... in sex, in friendship and when they're in love. And they cherish other beings, humans, animals, plants, even stones."
"We need to believe in something divine without the need for God, something we might call love or goodness. As the Psalm says, "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend unto heaven, thou art there. If I make m bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me.""
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