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

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

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.