Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction….

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or ent….

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility..

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated..

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful….

What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not alre….

Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a….

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence comet….

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise syst….

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far ex….

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you….

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put y….

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did..

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it..

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Ede….

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman..

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers..

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptit….

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever bei….