The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.