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

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

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

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.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.