Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.