Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

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'.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.