Ronald Knox

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.