The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution