The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

I am at one with my duality.