People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.