There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.