When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

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.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.