The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.

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