I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.