Atheism is too theological.

I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.