It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

If you had all the time in the world but your knowledge, wisdom and understanding remained unchanged, your life would remain the same.

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?