God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.