... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.