In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

The more intelligent, the less sane