“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.”

“In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.”

“A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.”

“The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.”

“Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.”

“The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.”

“In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and c...”

“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest pe...”

“The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.”

“Common sense and every material reality insisted upon the unification of human life throughout the planet and the socialisation of its elementary needs, and pitted against that was the fact that ev...”

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”

“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic ...”