If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.