A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.