“Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.”
“This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person who is loving us, and if that love is not returned - without demanding any physical response other than the marks of affectionate good will.”
“Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?”
“Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.”
“If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad”
“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.”