There’s a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.