Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.