Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature