I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.