The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.