Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.