It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.