Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.