Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.