The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred. - Karen Blixen

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.