All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!