Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.