Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.