Love doesnt grow on trees like apples in Eden – its something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. – Joyce Cary
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul – politics does the same thing for the body. – Joyce Cary
The will is never free – it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car – it cant steer. – Joyce Cary
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. – Joyce Cary
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James