In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write

A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation

The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.