I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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

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 things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.