I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

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.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.