The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.