. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

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

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

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

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.