A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.