The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?