Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.