Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
Dorothy L. SayersBut you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
Dorothy L. SayersChristendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.
Dorothy L. SayersShe couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
Dorothy L. Sayers