Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.