The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.