Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.