Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.

Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse - so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years!

Sleep." he said. "Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!