What is matter? Never mind.

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.