Satan fell by the force of gravity.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

Above all things have devoted love among yourselves for love covers a multitude of sins.

Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.