All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.