The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

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

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

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

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.