You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.