And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Let us be kinder to one another.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.