It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

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

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.