...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.