No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

I am at one with my duality.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

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.