Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.