There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

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 do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

These are the days that try man's heart.

I mean Dark Phoenix series, the way it was done, they didn't do it justice in the past movies, in my personal opinion. I just like the X-Men universe.