What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Saints can spring from any soil.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.