I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase - the pursuit of happiness - is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

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

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

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.