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

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.