People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.