I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

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.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.