When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

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

Hope is a talent like any other.