The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

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