If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.