Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.