Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.