Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.