“Prayer as a demonstration of faith, as disguised preaching, as an instrument of edification, is obviously not prayer at all… . Even as common prayer, it cannot take place at all … on a human front or with thought of a human opposite, but only as orientated toward God… . The only thing that counts is that he [the pray-er] shall really be concerned with God and with a request addressed to Him. It may well be that he can only sigh, stammer and mutter. But so long as it is a request brought before God, God will hear it and understand it, and He will accept it … as right, as prayer demanded by him, as an act of obedience, infinitely preferring it to the sublimest liturgy which does not fulfill this condition.”

“Emmaline, I used to think you were having a growth spurt, but now I know the truth: you’re a pig.”

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”