I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.