Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.