It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.