It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.