“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his l...”

“...even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were...”

“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play h...”

“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.”

“The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it...”