Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.