Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.