At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.