You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Napoleon is always right.

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.