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

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

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.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.