The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.