There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

He loved Big Brother.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes