Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.