“It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, a...” — Malcolm Muggeridge Quote

“It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.”

“This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.”

“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”

“St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”

“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.”

“I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.”

“I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.”

“The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.”

“Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.”

“Doing a one-person play feels like you've just discovered you had a superpower.”

“I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.”

“I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.”