Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.