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.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

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

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.