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

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

For the future. For the unborn.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.