I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.