Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

The complex develops out of the simple.