It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.