Imagination labors best in distant fields.
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'