The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.
Ive worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.
You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.