In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.