Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Time turns our lies into truths.

You do not need to think about a month, you need to plan the day

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

I don't like to see anybody hurt or suffer, especially children.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.