"We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget."
"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."
"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."