The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.