And it struck me that nowadays I nearly always do have a morose kind of feeling in the early morning.
A man may take a drink because he feels himself to be a failure and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
He might be ragged and cold, or even starving, but so long as he could read, think, and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.
But it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art.
He liked to think that beneath the world of money there is that great sluttish underworld where failure and success have no meaning; a sort of kingdom of ghosts where all are equal.
Never let other people buy your drinks for you! The first commandment of the moneyless.