We are all here on earth to help others.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.