Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!