Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

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

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.