Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.