Since the individual’s desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.
I don’t deny or affirm anything. I’m not very personal.
I don’t want anything. I don’t want a job. I don’t want to be respectable. I don’t want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam – good people.
We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
I look into my own black heart.
In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
Most writers write books that they wouldn’t read. I ought to know; I’ve done it myself.
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
Once people get hung up on theology, they’ve lost sanity forever.
Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we’re less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.
Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major.
It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.