You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.