Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.