When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.