Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.