I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.