Reason is simply a vast tautology..

State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motive….

Nothing is worse than what we can imagine..

That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, n….

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run..

Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility ….

He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. ….

Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just as….

He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be me….

So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so ha….

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt..

Long visits don't make for good friends..

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it..

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth..

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization..

It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and ….

There is nothing more humanly beautiful than a woman's breasts. Nothing more humanly beautiful, nothing more humanly mysterious than why men should w….

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business..

Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the existence of Marion Bloom...Marion….

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptat….