...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.