If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

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