Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

Plato was right, but not quite right.