One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
Donโt underestimate the value of ironyโit is extremely valuable.
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
The fatal futility of Fact.
To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .