I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.