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.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.