television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.