"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."
"A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation."
"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."