Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.