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.

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

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

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.