What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.