In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.