Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.