The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.