Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Presentation, not reference.