I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

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

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.