If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.