"The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity."

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus …"

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices."