The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.