It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.