It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.