“I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.”

“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials we all must bear. I think that even the most common-minded person in the land...”

“If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life its his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - thats different; it makes it worth...”

“He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.”

“Believe in your dreams for that is what makes you magical.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”