Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.