[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t it? - Morris West

you will suffer something else: a psychic trauma, a personality change whose dimensions still elude full explanation. You will be emotionally fragile – as prone to tears as to rage. You will be subject to depressions, sudden, black and sometimes suicidal. At one moment you will be as dependent as a child, seeking reassurance after a nightmare. The next you will be angry and frustrated by your own impotence. Your short-term memory may be defective. Your tolerance of emotional stress will be greatly reduced. You will be strongly advised by the counsellors who will be working with

If this were not love, then Landon was ignorant indeed. And if love were a folly, then he was content to be a fool.

I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!