The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.