To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.