No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.