Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.