I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.

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

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.