I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.