It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

The only Christian work is good work, well done