Animal Farm the function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing.

Even an evil man can have principles he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

By the time his political career began, he was in command of an artwork of lies elaborate enough to support his smallest need. He could shave the truth by a hair or subvert it altogether.

Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers’ lives.

Then comes the left jab again. A converted southpaw? It has something of the shift of locus which comes from making love to a brunette when she is wearing a blond wig.

I always start a book for money. If you’re married five times you have to.

The world’s not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.