One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

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.

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

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.