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

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.