It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.