You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.