How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

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.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.