You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

It is always the secure who are humble.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.