“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”

“It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.”

“There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”

“But what a horrible world 'society' is.”

“A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink.I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom.I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.”

“It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.”

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”