I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.