It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water. . . . All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.
Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.
When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been. We've turned it into war. We're talking about a bunch of semi-lunatic, fanatic criminals. That's the way they should be treated.
Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
Cats are our last best chance to have a dysfunctional relationship.
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.