The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.