The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.