It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.