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“You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.”
Source : Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.”
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“For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.”
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“Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.”
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“The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.”
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“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Source : "Bronte goes pop...", www.harpersbazaar.com. August 23, 2011. 
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“Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant.”
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“I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.”
Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.
