The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

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.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.