The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.