One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

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

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.