My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.
Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of power generally (except, of course, the power of enemies, which we must denounce, imitating the commissars who are his models, though he doesn't understand it).
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return. The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.