The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.