“Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage—that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.”

“Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.”

“There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled...”

“Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.”

“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”

“The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so. ”

“Often, when I pray, I wonder if I'm not posting letters to a non-existent address.”