Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.