People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

I don't like seeing people angry.

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

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.