the mute protest in your own bones

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.