Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.