The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

The object of powder is powder.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.