One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.