Only poor men get hanged.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.