I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

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

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

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.