Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.