And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!