Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.