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" I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. "

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" I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it. "

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" I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror. "

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" My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate. "

" I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are. "

" One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were. "

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" I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated. "

" My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. "

" I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me. "