By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.