An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles