The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

My knees have always been ugly.

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption that the best man will win is not at all justified. It might equally be argued that the worst, the most unscrupulous man will win, although history will continue the absurd game by finding him after all the best man.

Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.