Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.