They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.