... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.