The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.