It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

The only Christian work is good work, well done

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.