For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.