I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.