"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."