Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.