Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.