Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.