Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.