There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

I was cured all right.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

Every dogma has its day.

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.