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.

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 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.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

Peace—[the ability] to sleep in the storm!

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.