Christianity is like life insurance: you have to die to collect.
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
In art incompetence is usually taken for directness and sincerity.
Art in which adults can take no pleasure is unfit for children.
Many of the disorders of the psychology textbooks are quite useful in moderation, and not a few are outright virtues.
It is on the most dubious propositions that we lavish our most ardent desires.
To dominate someone is to think less often of him than he does of you, and to do this on a mass scale is fame.
Pleasure lies chiefly in anticipation and retrospection, the experience itself being necessary to ensure that neither is spoiled.
It is the progressives, though they sneer at the Christians, who are most thoroughly convinced of grace by faith.
Those who suffer for their art usually make you suffer for it too.
Fiction: imaginary people, real problems. Sports: imaginary problems, real people.