There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

The true object of human life is play.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.