You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.