War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

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

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.