I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

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.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

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.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.