The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

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

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

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.