Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.