The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.