On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.