I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.