If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God’s crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can’t think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.
If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there’d be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
War is capitalism with the gloves off.
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now.
No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
No matter how imperfect things are, if you’ve got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not – well, it’s progress.
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
You’re familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
I’m hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify – capriciously – their urge for immortality.
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
A circle is the longest distance to same point.