The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention..

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone..

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English,….

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell..

When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely; and I think it's almost ….

Travel, of course, narrows the mind..

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures..

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long be….

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination;….

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're liv….

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing..

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole chara….

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society..

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exac….

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it..

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..

Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ….

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying….

I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely t….

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that….

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat ….