He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.