Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

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.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.