Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.