When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Hell is gone and heaven's here, there's nothing left for you to fear.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death'.