I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.