Morris West

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.