The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.