HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.