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.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.