"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"

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

"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"

"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any"

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"

"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray"