Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.