A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitability of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention.
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Diplomats and Intelligence agents, in my experience, are even bigger liars than journalists, and the historians who try to reconstruct the past out of their records are, for the most part, dealing in fantasy.
Good taste and humor... are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
On television I feel like a man playing a piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
The world is so overflowing with absurdity that it is difficult for the humorist to compete.
We English have sex on the brain, which is not the most satisfactory place for it.
Writers of thrillers tend to gravitate to the Secret Service as surely as the mentally unstable become psychiatrists, or the impotent pornographers.
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