One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

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

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.