In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.