Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.