There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

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

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.