The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Power is not a means; it is an end.