I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. I believe that we are ultimately directed Godward but that this journey is often impeded by emotion

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.