I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.