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.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

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.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.