Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.