At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.