[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

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.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.