The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.