Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.