works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.