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

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

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

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

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.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.