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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.