Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.