"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming"

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"

"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting"

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts"