I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

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.

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

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.