History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

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

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

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

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.