At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.