The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.