The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

We are all here on earth to help others.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.