When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

…the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

Have you ever tried?" "No." Then don't tell me I can't.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like.

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!