I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

Chess is a curse upon a man.