What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

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

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.