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

When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

I'm much too modest a person.

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