It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.