I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.