“Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!”

“Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes”

“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ”

“He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!”

“You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you’ve decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.”

“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!”

“When tempted to sin, I often repeat to myself two truths: holiness brings happiness, and purity brings power.”