War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.