The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person; someone who would 'take me away from all this.'