All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.