It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.