What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Civilization is sterilization.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.