I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely