Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.

To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

I've done collaborations with Scott [Morgan, aka Loscil] in the past, but it is something that kind of appeals to me these days.

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk