A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

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.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?