Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.