I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.