Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.