That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

...you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.

I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.