I believe the Gita to be one of the major religious documents of the world. If its teachings did not seem to me to agree with those of the other gosp… - Christopher Isherwood

"Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested...."

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.