Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!