For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.