History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.