With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.