We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

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

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.