All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

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

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.