People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

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

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

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

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 most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

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