A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.