When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which peop…

Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect an…

I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in…

Sometimes. Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.