"He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy
in his heart and comedy in his head."
"The simplification of anything is
always sensational."
"Reason is always a kind of brute force;
those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite,
are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we
can do nothing to his head but hit it."
"A thing may be too sad to be believed
or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too
absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and
cuttle-fish."
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing
the line somewhere."
"Fairy tales don't teach children that
monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales teach children that monsters can
be killed."