I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you