Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.