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.

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

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.