Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.