I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

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