People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.