But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

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

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.